#Is there a way to customise your colour calibration?

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pseudo valley
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Hello! I'm thinking of moving back to Mint after a while of being on Windows. However, there's a really specific problem that I can fix easily on Windows, that I'd like to also fix when I move to Mint.

A long while ago, my external monitor started displaying an intense red tone that stayed no matter what I did to the cable (including switching it out). It was a really intense red tone.

In order to fix it, I just opened Windows' colour calibration program, and set the amount of red to 0, fixing the intense red tone and making colours look right again.

And before I upgrade to Mint, just to be sure, I've been looking online for equivalents that'd let me do that same thing. Sadly, it looks like the colour calibration that comes by default only lets you choose from presets, not make your own, and I can't really find any program that'd let me do so.

So, here's the thing - Are there any programs that would let me either make my own colour presets, or at the very least calibrate the monitor's colour to remove the red?

Attached are two images - what the colours should normally look like, and a very slightly exaggerated reproduction of what they look like with no calibration. Thank you in advance!

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tribal mulch
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this fixed also my color issues on my screen

pseudo valley
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Oh damn, that's.. genuinely useful!

tribal mulch
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you need another screen with the right colors to do the calibration btw

tribal mulch
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now, check if cinnamon has a way to import ICC profiles

pseudo valley
pseudo valley
tribal mulch
# pseudo valley Oh, I do, thank goodness.

the way I noticed my screen was having way off colors, was by comparing some images from my laptop with my phone screen, and the same image looked more vivid and colored, even cleaner than on my laptop. the laptop screen colors looked too washed out. so, I did the windowz ICC profile and imported it. then plasma offered me another profile

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now the thing is to find a way for cinnamon, as plasma has it ootb since v6.0

pseudo valley
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Ooooh!

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In my case, it was.. really noticeable. Everything was immediately reddened, it was like in cartoons when alarms go off with big red lights. I panicked for a couple hours, until I did the Windows colour calibration thing out of pure, and total desperation.

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Somehow, it worked.

tribal mulch
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iirc, the ICC profile file is on windowz system folder, a bit of search can help you

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archwiki has info about this, but using an ICC file is the faster and easier way

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as long your desktop supports it ofc

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remember that mint has 3 desktops

tribal mulch
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In Linux Mint Cinnamon go to System Settings | scroll down to Color and you can "Add Profile", Scroll down to "Other Profile ..." and navigate to the folder where the ICC file is and choose it.

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IT WAS THAT EASY FOLKS

tribal mulch
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Also consult the monitor docs/specifications

tribal mulch
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Linux Mint also includes a set of CIE, Adobe and other standard color profiles

tribal mulch
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@pseudo valley

pseudo valley
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Ayy! \o/